Frying pan
Archaeological museum of Chora
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Frying pan
1400 CE – 1300 BCE
Archaeological museum of Chora
Tragana, tholos tomb 1, Messenia
Length: 18 cm Height: 3.5 cm
Bronze shallow “frying pan” with a solid cylindrical handle, possibly used to hold scented oil. It is deformed and was found close to the entrance of the mycenaean tholos tomb 1 at Tragana, alongside other bronze artefacts and weapons, which are valuable witnesses of the of metallic products in mycenaean Messenia.